 | George Crabb - 1823 - 704 páginas
...composed of heaven and earth. PALLE-MAI'LLE (Sport.) a game where a round bowl is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, standing at either end of an alley. PA'LLET (Her.) the diminutive of the pale, being one half of its breadth. Several pallets may be borne... | |
 | William Clarke - 1829 - 476 páginas
...Pall-mall is a came wherein a round piece of box is struck, with a mallet, through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins. It is to be observed, that there are two of these arches, that is, one at either end of... | |
 | 1833 - 460 páginas
...benefit of clergy allowed them. 5. Origin of Pell Moll. 'Pale Maille' is a game where 'a round ball is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron, standing at either end of an alley, as in St. James's Park — hence Pell Mell. C. Epitaph Jor a Bankrupt. The Italian epitaph is no less... | |
 | 1833 - 462 páginas
...benefit of clergy allowed them. 5. Origin ofl'tll Mail. ' Pale Maille' is a game where a round hait is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron, standing at cither end of an alley, as in St. James's Park — hence Pcli Mell. 6. fipitaph ./or a Bankrupt. The... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - 1838 - 492 páginas
...says he, " is a game wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins." It is to be observed, that there nre two of these arches, that is, " one at either end... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 494 páginas
...very merry with a good barrell of oysters, and this is the present life I lead. Home and to bed. , through a high arch of iron (standing, at either end of an alley, one), which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed on, wins." In France, it was... | |
 | 1854 - 506 páginas
...and English Dictionary. — " Palemaille : a game, wherein a round box bowle is with a mallet strucke through a high arch of iron (standing at either end of an ally one) which he that can do at the fewest blowes, or at the number agreed on, winnes." Howell and... | |
 | William Clarke - 1855 - 234 páginas
...Pall-mall is a game wherein a round piece of box is stmick, with a mallet, through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins. It is to be observed, that there are two of these arches, that is, one at either end of... | |
 | Richard Stephen Charnock - 1859 - 784 páginas
...exercising this game in St. James's Park, and also a street near it. Palle Maille, a game where a round bowl is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron, standing at either end of an alley, as in St. James's Park." (Bailey.) PALMYRA, so called by the Greeks and Romans ; in Scripture " Tadmor... | |
 | 1865 - 642 páginas
...known. In the edition for that year of Blount's 'Glossographia' we are told that 'paille maille is a game wherein a round bowle, is with a mallet struck...through a high arch of iron (standing at either end of the alley), which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed on, wins.' This game... | |
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RUGGE. It is derived from paille maille, French ; at which word Cotgrave thus describes the game : — "A game, wherein a round box bowle is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron (standing, at either end of an alley, one), which he that can... 
